Why is Ohio so . . . (fill in the blank)

Ohio is important, bad and cloudy -- if Google searches are any indication.

The media, including me, is pretty fascinated by this
map of how Google's autocomplete feature finishes the question that begins "Why
is (name the state) so . . . " It was done by
Amazing Maps.

Autocomplete is based on most-common search terms, so the fact that countless Internet users are
asking "Why is Ohio so important?" doesn't sound too bad. They're undoubtedly mystified about why
presidential campaigns spend so much time here, but that's better than what people are wondering
about neighboring states:

Why is West Virginia so poor?

Why is Michigan so cold?

Why is Pennsylania so haunted?

Overall, autocomplete paints a fairly unpleasant picture of the nation: The terms
poor, cold, racist and
boring account for about a quarter of the states in the union.

(The map is a snapshot of what people were searching at the time it was compiled in January. The
autocomplete terms do vary over time.)

When I tried it for Ohio, I got
boring,
important in the election and
cloudy as the top three autocompletes.

It made me wonder how Google autocompletes other questions. Here are a few:

Why is Columbus so . . . gay?

Interesting. I'm presuming those searches are for Columbus, Ohio and not Christopher
Columbus.